In The Region

February 25, 1985|The Morning Call

AM Cable TV Industries, Inc., of Milford has announced that its Tier Guard System, engineered and manufactured by the company's E-Com division, is being tested in Oakland, Calif. Tier Guard is an off-premises addressable tap that protects cable television systems from theft of services. The test, in a high signal theft market area of approximately 400 homes, identified 30 percent of the homes passed as nonpaying subscribers, some which were converted to paying subscribers.

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Sale of the Gallery on the Mall building, 932-944 Hamilton Mall, Allentown, was completed Friday at a cost of nearly $3 million, according to Daniel J. Brennan of Souderton, one of the investors who bought the 60,000-square-foot structure from Richard Hatfield and John Lyon.

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Commercial bankruptcy petitions have been filed recently in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Philadelphia by:

Bethlehem International Engineering Corp., a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Corp., has signed a licensing agreement with Industrial Construction & Maintenance Co., Ltd., of Saudi Arabia.

Industrial Construction, which supplies equipment and plant maintenance services to companies in the manufacturing, processing and petroleum industries, will be provided with the technology for a vibration and analysis system developed by Bethlehem Steel.

The diagnostic system, called Computerized Vibration Analysis, allows monitoring of critical rotating machinery as a means of predicting potential breakdowns. It also can be used to evaluate new equipment, thus preventing costly interruptions in startup programs, a company spokesman explained.